HE>i ? There's a remedy for that...

You've likely seen these self-depreciating HE>i tee shirts and bumper stickers around town branding your local neighborhood religious types as such.

If you find these as irritating as I do, never fear!  As with most things, if there's a poison, there's a remedy.

HE = imaginary

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The square root of negative one (√-1) is known as an "imaginary number", because although it can be expressed as an equation, it does not exist. There is no square root of negative one, because no number multiplied by itself results in a negative number. Hence, stating HE=√-1 essentially means "HE is imaginary" or "HE is nonexistent".

The beauty of this design is that even while mocking them directly, those who would find it offensive are likely too dim to understand it's meaning.  After all, you don't see a whole lot of fundamentalist Christians winning Fields Medals.


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